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the Bone Showby *dogmadic

Photography / Horror & Macabre

Sedlec is a suburb to Kutna Hora, a town in south Bohemia that once flourished due to its mined silver reserve. It is about an hour’s travel from Prague and is famous for the All Saints ossuary which contains the bones of over 40,000 people. In the 14th century, the Black Death spread the bubonic plague across Europe and 30,000 bodies all wanted a resting place within the sacred church grounds. In 1870 Frantisek Rint, a wood carver and artist was employed by the Schwarzenberg family to imaginatively compose the bones into works of art; amongst his creations are the Schwarzenberg family’s coat of arms, and a chandelier containing every bone in the human body.

Sedlec, CZ Republic Jan.2008

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~Radisus Dec 13, 2009

I love this style of sculpturing, but have to say WTF does the kid there

*baba49 Oct 12, 2009 Hobbyist Digital Artist

I feature this photo in my new journal

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know and I will remove it. Thank you!

~FrodoPrime Mar 26, 2009 Hobbyist Photographer

thanks for all the historical data - it gives the image the context that is needed

~brentonbostwick Jan 12, 2009

hows it going man, i came upon the ossuary while travelling about 12 years ago and remember it vividly. in fact i know realize it had a profound visual impact on me and has translated recently into my sculptures. nice photo

~ENDarkArt Oct 10, 2008 Photographer

really amazing

*Dolly-Belladonna Oct 4, 2008 Hobbyist General Artist

Its beautiful and eerie ^^

*dogmadic Oct 6, 2008

Thanks very much!

*Dolly-Belladonna Oct 7, 2008 Hobbyist General Artist

Very much welcome doll ^^

~kingofnowhere Sep 28, 2008

Almost seems like a surreal painting, doesn't it?
I wish sooo much that I had visited this place when I was in Prague -- but my family seemed, for some incomprehensible reason, to find it a little macabre.

*dogmadic Oct 2, 2008

Yes it was surely one of the strangest places I'd been to there. It took some convincing to get my friend to go there with me but he was glad he did afterwards. I've got a few more images from there that I'm going to upload.

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